LUCKYME kick off 2024 with a debut EP from Parisian producer Sunareht. Forged from the scene around Teki Latex and his Sound Pellegrino label, Sunareht – alongside contemporaries Le Dom, To Van Kao, De Grandi and Birol – runs Paradoxe Club, a label championing forward thinking French dance music. ‘Youth EP’ is exactly that – six fizzing club cuts that take the familiar ‘French Touch’ sound, before dialling it up to eleven and flinging it into the far future. Samples are chopped into fluttering sequences and married with the glistening, bassheavy sound design of post-dubstep and hyperpop. Opening track, ‘Promises’, featuring regular collaborator and Aphex Twin favourite Le Dom, is a certified party starter, and a perfect introduction into the technicolour world of Sunareht. The rotating hook ducks and weaves through beautifully crafted drums in an unsettling bitcrushed landscape – as if the track can’t handle its own bandwidth. Elsewhere, title track ‘Youth’ squeezes every drop out of a stuttering pop sample, rendering it unrecognisable; and ‘Break Bandits’ provides a bright euphoria, mixing Etienne de Crécy synths with Overmono-style vocals.

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